Should Twitter sue IB ?

Just a quick shout out to vB's legal team .... Props for your unique lack of logical thought and the obvious entertainment value this omission brings.

So .... you claim harm from Xenforo stealing your "Copy Twitter" logic - before you could get to it ?
So vB is allowed to copy Twitter and be "Twitter-like" but xF is not allowed ?

So the lawyers admit vBulletin copies other software such as Twitter. They directly say vBulletin is trying to be "Twitter-like".
If they condone making their software like another .... why wouldn't another software be able to be like theirs ?

Hang on a minute, I could be getting confused with what your referring to here? But Twitter themselves show you how to integrate it's features into your site using the developers tools page. That's how I did the same with my forum board using that page.

Hang on a minute, I could be getting confused with what your referring to here? But Twitter themselves show you how to integrate it's features into your site using the developers tools page. That how I did the same with my forum board using that page.

Hang on a minute, I could be getting confused with what your referring to here? But Twitter themselves show you how to integrate it's features into your site using the developers tools page. That's how I did the same with my forum board using that page.

Did Vb have to submit patents for their software like apple does with their iphone apps? I saw something on /. once where they did a comparison of new apple patents vs what was currently available in the app store. The apps that weren't protected via patents were submitted by apple using their ideas and direct copies of their interfaces. Apple got the patent for some cool apps, and the developers kinda got screwed.

Did Vb have to submit patents for their software like apple does with their iphone apps? I saw something on /. once where they did a comparison of new apple patents vs what was currently available in the app store. The apps that weren't protected via patents were submitted by apple using their ideas and direct copies of their interfaces. Apple got the patent for some cool apps, and the developers kinda got screwed.

I think this could have been a big reason why IB was so fussed about Kier and Mike creating XenForo in the first place. I've took notice with IB that they seem to have a high turn-over of staff, they appear to take on cheap labour (college whiz kids) who's just left looking for work, who they don't have to pay a large wage too no doubt because of their age I'm guessing. Then a year later they are getting shut of them, replaced with another cheap batch of young coders just out of college. Or they've left already beforehand to another company who poached them away from IB. Pretty much like we've already seen happen there a few times with Sophie and one or two others leaving soon after first getting them!

There's no stability anymore at vBulletin, and each one has to learn things all over again working with the vB product and team as a new recruit. I knew this would happen the first minute it became obvious IB was more interested in the money making graph charts and developing it on the cheap, than they was about the quality of the product being sold.

They have no passion for creating something great, that the biggest problem. They'd sooner spend time moving onto another new money making App, rather than first getting stuck-in and providing a superior forum product first and foremost that their customers are very happy with, and would keep them faithful to the product as a result. You can't keep selling people trash and expect they'll carry on paying for it!

And if you don't have the passion to create something great, your on a loser from day one.

This all makes me laugh. IPB and vBulletin in the past have been copying each others features to try and better one another for years without any of this stuff going on now. It's all part and parcel of what makes each product better over time. MyBB also got away with creating a very obvious clone of vBulletin it has to be said without any of this, and they offer MyBB for using free.

Why can't IB just accept that forum developers are always going to look at another forum boards strong points and use it for their own forum software if they feel it can benefit from it.

That's how things progress with each one in general. Not only ONE forum software product always comes up with the original ideas each time.